Re: NBWIN, keyboard customization, CtrlPlus, Ctrl F

["John Chernoff" <johnchernoff>]

Thanks to you, too.  As I said, I haven't tried CtrlPlus.  Are you saying
that it solves the hard-coded Control-F problem in NBWin?

John


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael T. O'Brien" <mto>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE" <notabene>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 10:49 AM
Subject: NBWIN, keyboard customization, CtrlPlus


> My thanks to John Chernoff, who recommended CtrlPlus for Win98.  It switches
> Caps Lock with Ctrl and gives you a Wordstar-like cursor-control diamond.
> I've tried it with NBWIN, MS Works, Word 2000, Wordpad, Notepad, and
> YeahWrite and it seems to work as described, with only one exception: ^H is
> not converted into Backspace in NB, altho it works correctly in the other
> programs.
>
> A nice feature of the program is that it toggles on/off easily, so one can
> easily still use ^F for Find, ^S for save, etc.  It's thus easy to turn off
> when using any program that would not benefit from WS-like cursor controls.
> Installing the program was much easier than modifying my nb.kbd file. It's
> cost is only $10., and it's an intelligently designed, compact, no-frills
> programs that's only 7000 bytes large, about the same size as its small
> ReadMe.txt file.  Three cheers to its designer, Yoji Hagiya in Japan.
>
> I wish there were a program like it that would work with Win95.  My main
> computer is my laptop, which is limited to Win95.  Anyone know of similar
> program that works with Win95?
>
> PCMZKM32.zip works under Win95 and will swap the CapsLock & Ctrl keys, but
> it does not let you modify ^alpha keys.
>
> Mike
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